The third day of AWS re:Invent 2021 kicked off with a two-hour presentation on the company’s initiatives in machine learning and artificial intelligence. In typical style for the public cloud giant, the approach taken by presenting executives, including Swami Sivasubramanian, vice president of Amazon AI, was to level-set customer expectations and then show precisely how ...

One of the many subplots surrounding AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas this week is the question of Amazon Web Services Inc.’s second act. Now that the public cloud has reached a level of scale and maturity since AWS was founded 15 years ago, what will fuel the cloud industry’s next wave of growth? Noted Greylock ...

There were several “firsts” at the start of AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas this week. It was the first time Andy Jassy was not on stage to deliver the opening keynote, and it was the first time his successor as AWS chief executive – Adam Selipsky – was accorded the honor. It was also the ...

Pathfinders were very much on the mind of Adam Selipsky, chief executive of Amazon Web Services Inc., during his first keynote delivery as the firm’s CEO on Tuesday. Selipsky, who worked closely with previous AWS CEO Andy Jassy to build the public cloud giant over the course of 11 years, referenced key “pathfinding” figures in his ...

ChaosSearch Inc. set out to revolutionize the data management and analytics market. The startup has opened a new window into how enterprises leverage the data lake by leaving information where it resides and allowing users to employ multiple tools to derive insight. The company’s quest for a new data paradigm was the focus of the ...

Despite holding an all-virtual re:Invent in 2020, Amazon Web Services Inc. still rolled out a significant number of announcements. This year’s gathering will be a hybrid version, with in-person attendees in Las Vegas combined with an online-only audience, and the volume of news from the public cloud leader is expected to remain just as strong. ...

Security of the software supply chain has gained significant attention over the past year. Two major cybersecurity attacks — SolarWinds and Kaseya — proved sharp reminders to reexamine every component of software development and deployment, including what they are and where they came from. The first signs of major supply chain vulnerability actually showed up over ...

There is a new era in data management and analytics, and it’s being driven by enterprise solutions implemented through firms such as ChaosSearch Inc. In a previous paradigm, data lived in a cloud object store and had to be extracted into a new location for cleansing and structuring through a schema for analysis. This could ...

When a major annual conference approaches for most companies, the plan is usually to highlight a few milestones of success for assembled analysts, customers and media. As Amazon Web Services Inc. gears up for re:Invent 2021, the dilemma will be which significant milestone to select. Should it be its architectural initiatives to revolutionize processing architectures? ...

There is a big difference between $300 million in annual revenue, which was Splunk Inc.’s high water mark in 2014, and $3 billion, which is what the firm is expected to generate this year. Splunk’s significant business growth in less than a decade has been fueled by an expanding cloud database market and multicloud data ...